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Professor Martin Ricketts, Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of Economic Organisation
martin.ricketts@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820119

Professor Martin Ricketts is Professor of Economic Organisation at the University. He graduated from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (1970) and has a DPhil from the University of York (1980). He has published in professional journals on the theory of the firm, aspects of public finance, the new institutional economics and housing policy. He worked as a research economist at the Industrial Policy Group (1970-1972) under the direction of Professor John Jewkes and was Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of York (1975-1977). He has been on the academic staff of the University of Buckingham since 1977 becoming successively Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader and finally Professor (1987). He has held a number of visiting posts abroad, notably Visiting Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University (VPI) in the USA, and has lectured widely in other countries. As an economic adviser he has worked for organisations such as the Anglo-German Foundation, the Civil Engineering Contractors and the Centre for Policy Studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Manufactures and Commerce and an Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University (1996-). He was Economic Director of the National Economic Development Office (UK) 1991-1992; Dean of the School of Business at the University of Buckingham 1993-1997; and is Chairman of the International Advisory Council and a managing trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

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Professor Geoffrey Alderman, Professor of Politics and Contemporary History
geoffrey.alderman@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820120

Professor Geoffrey Alderman studied history at Oxford, where his teachers included Sir Martin Gilbert, the late AJP Taylor and the late Dr Cecil Roth. From 1972 until 1994 Professor Alderman taught History and Politics in the University of London, where he was promoted to a Personal Chair in 1989.

From 1989 until 1994 Professor Alderman was Chairman of the Academic Council of the University of London and (1992-93) Pro Vice-Chancellor for Academic Standards. In 1994 Professor Alderman accepted an appointment as quality supremo at Middlesex University, where he became Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality & Standards). In 1999 Professor Alderman crossed the Atlantic to become Vice-President of Touro College, New York, and in 2002 he re-crossed the Atlantic to become Senior Vice-President of American InterContinental University London (2002-6). Professor Alderman is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of London's Institute of Historical Research and Michael Gross Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham.

Professor Alderman is the author and co-author of some 12 books, including Modern British Jewry (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1998). He is also an Associate Editor of the New Dictionary of National Biography, in charge of all post-1800 Jewish entries. He writes irregularly for the Guardian and regularly for the Jewish Chronicle.

Geoffrey Alderman teaches History and Politics at the University of Buckingham

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Professor John Clarke, Professor of History
john.clarke@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820294

Before coming to Buckingham, Professor John Clarke spent a number of years at Oxford. He read history at Wadham College and graduated with first class honours. He was then elected to a Prize Fellowship at All Souls College. In the early 1970s, he completed his doctorate on social and economic history in the early 19th century. Professor Clarke has published books on George III (1972), England in the Age of Cobbett (1977), British Diplomacy and Foreign Policy (1989) as well as others on local history. As a person whose family has lived in the area for generations (his great-grandfather was a village blacksmith at Lillingstone Dayrell) his work on the history of the towns of Brackley and Buckingham has been greatly appreciated by the local community. Professor Clarke has been associated with the University of Buckingham and its predecessor, the University College at Buckingham, from the start of the project in 1976. He was Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer in History. In the latter capacity he helped to set up the degree programme in History, Politics and English Literature and later the single honours programmes in History and English. He became Professor of History in 1999. John Clarke has taught undergraduates at Wadham, Brasenose, Worcester, Balliol, St Hugh's and St John's Colleges in Oxford and has also supervised the work of several graduate students. He believes that research and writing are essential attributes of effective undergraduate teaching.

John Clarke teaches History

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Professor Anthony Glees, Professor of Politics
Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies
anthony.glees@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820215

Anthony Glees MA MPhil DPhil (Oxford) is professor of Politics at the University of Buckingham and directs its Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS). With a full programme of research and teaching (some thirty students are currently taking its MA, MPhil and PhD programmes) BUCSIS is one of the largest such centres in Europe.

He was a student at St Catherine's College, Oxford and then an associate and senior associate member of St Antony's College. His previous full-time appointments were at the universities of Warwick and Brunel (where he was latterly professor of politics).

He has a specialist concern with Security and Intelligence issues and has written and lectured on aspects of the history of British intelligence, on the Stasi, on Islamism, on terrorism and counter-terrorism, on subversion in western democracies both today and in the past. He takes a particular interest in European Union and German affairs and contemporary history (on which he has also published extensively).

He is the author of six books (four of which are single authored), numerous chapters in books and scholarly articles. He is a member of the international advisory boards of the Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism at Macquarie University, Australia, the Asia-Pacific Foundation in London, the Research Institute for European and American Studies in Athens, Greece and the Oxford Intelligence Group. Since 2002 he has been an expert consultant on security issues to the European Ideas Network, a think-tank attached to the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Intelligence and National Security and The Journal for Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism.

His work has received detailed and repeated attention from BBC TV and Radio (numerous outlets), ITN, Sky TV, CNN, Korean TV, Al-Jazeera and numerous radio networks in the USA, Canada, Germany and from Reuters, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail, The Guardian and many other newspapers throughout the world.

Anthony Glees was the advisor to the War Crimes Inquiry in the Home Office (1988-90) and his work on the Stasi was debated in Parliament on 21 December 1999. He has also worked for the head of Current Affairs at BBC TV (1987-88). In January 2010 he was invited to give evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Homeland Security Group. He has been invited to speak to expert audiences within the UK, the United States and the European Union (since 2001 he has been a senior security policy advisor to the EPP Parties in the European Parliament via the European Ideas Network, the EIN and visited many European nations in this capacity). In January 2010 he was appointed a professor of trust (Vertrauensdozent) by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

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Professor Richard Langhorne, Professor of Global Politics
richard.langhorne@buckingham.ac.uk

Professor Richard Langhorne studied at Cambridge and lectured in History at the University of Kent, where he was also Master of Rutherford College. He was then Fellow of St John's College and Director of the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge. From 1993-1996 he worked for the British Government as Director and Chief Executive of Wilton Park Executive Agency, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Since then he has been Full Professor of Political Sciences and Director of the Graduate Division of Global Affairs, Rutgers University, USA. He was President of the British International History Association, 1988-1993, and he has been a visiting professor at universities in Ecuador, China, the USA and Russia. His books include The Practice of Diplomacy: its Evolution, Theory and Administration (1994, with K.A. Hamilton); The Coming of Globalization: its Evolution and Contemporary Consequences (2001); Diplomacy (2004, with Christer Jonsson); The Essentials of Global Politics (2006).

Richard Langhorne teaches on the MA in Global Affairs

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Mr Michael McCrostie, Chairman of International Studies Degree Programmes and Senior Lecturer in Economics; Admissions Tutor
mjm@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820117

Mr Michael McCrostie graduated in Management Science ( BSc Hons) from the University of Warwick and in Economics ( MPhil ) from the University of York. He is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and was Head of Department (1991-97). He has been a Visiting Professor of Economics in the United States and whilst Director, Visiting Students' Programme, set up Buckingham's student exchange programme with Lehigh University, Pennsylvania which has now been running successfully since 1989. Under this programme a small number of students from within the School of Humanities have the opportunity of studying in America for a semester as part of their Buckingham degrees. In addition, Mr McCrostie handles the University of Buckingham Visiting Students' programme for the Schools of Business and Humanities. Visiting students are always welcome at Buckingham. Because we teach through the summer full-time students at other universities can enjoy the Buckingham experience without having to take time away from their home institution. Sometimes visitors like to pursue a course or courses purely out of interest but students from another university can seek help to arrange approval for credit transfer. To find out more about the courses and terms available, or to arrange a visit, email Mr. McCrostie on mjm@buckingham.ac.uk

Mr Malcolm Rees, Lecturer in Economics
malcolm.rees@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820121

Mr Malcolm Rees was educated at Cambridge University where he graduated with honours in Economics and Politics, and at the London School of Economics where he received an MSc in Sociology. He also studied at the University of York, working as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social and Economic Research. His career has included periods as an Economic Advisor at the Department of Health and Social Security and as a consultant specialising in the economic evaluation of health services. He has undertaken consultancy work for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Health Organisation (WHO). His published work includes papers on the cost-benefit analysis of regional neurosurgical care and on the epidemiology of AIDS. He has taught at the University of Lehigh (PA, USA, 1979-81) and at Buckingham since 1991. He accepted a Visiting Professorship at LeHigh for the first semester of 1999 but has now returned to his post at Buckingham.

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Dr Julian Richards, Deputy Director of the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies
julian.richards@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820215

Dr Julian Richards obtained a PhD in political violence in Pakistan in Cambridge University in 1992. He then entered the UK Ministry of Defence, where he worked for a number of years on defence and security policy, returning to academic life as a Research Fellow with Brunel University's Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies in 2006. In 2008, he jointly founded the new Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS) at the University of Buckingham, and joined the Global Affairs teaching staff two years later. Dr Richards is also an Associate of the Pakistan Security Research Unit (PSRU) at Bradford University, and an active member of the European Ideas Network (EIN), with whom he has published a number of articles and delivered addresses at various conferences and events.

Dr Richards' book The Art and Science of Intelligence Analysis (Oxford University Press) will be published in autumn 2010. In addition, he has published a number of articles and papers on intelligence issues, the security situation in the Afghanistan / Pakistan region, and international terrorism and counter-terrorism policy in the UK and Europe. A book chapter on the intelligence relationship between India and Pakistan is also due for publication in an edited volume in 2010. Dr Richards continues to be active in European affairs, contributing regularly to EIN events, and sitting on the panel of the Global Security Challenges competition in Brussels in 2009. His current research interests focus on the security situation in Pakistan; counter-terrorism policy in the UK and Europe; processes of extremism and radicalisation among Western youth; and the security implications of contemporary globalisation.

Professor Jane Ridley, Professor of History
jane.ridley@buckingham.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1280 820357

Professor Jane Ridley read History at St Hugh's College, Oxford, graduating with a First Class degree. Between 1974 and 1978 she was a research student at Nuffield College, Oxford, and in 1985 she gained a DPhil in Modern History for her thesis "Leadership and Management in the Conservative Party in Parliament 1906-1914". Her link with Buckingham began in 1979 when she became a Lecturer in History. She was made a Senior Lecturer at Buckingham in 1994, a Reader in 2002 and Professor in 2007. Since 2003 she has served as Senior Tutor, with responsibility for student discipline.

Her publications include The Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho (1992) and The Young Disraeli (1995). She has written a history of Fox Hunting (1990). She has published articles in learned journals and she has contributed widely to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Her biography of Edwin Lutyens, The Architect and his Wife (2002) was awarded the Duff Cooper Prize. She reviews regularly for the Spectator, the Literary Review and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a member of English Heritage's Blue Plaques panel, and she is excited by broadcasting on Radio 4 and contributing to TV documentaries on history.

Her current project is a major new biography of King Edward VII, which is due to be published in 2010. In 2008 she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to complete her work on this project.

Jane Ridley teaches History and runs the MA in Biography which she founded in 1996.

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Professor Keith Shaw, Emeritus Professor of Economics
keith.shaw@buckingham.ac.uk

Professor G.K. Shaw was Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Buckingham. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he pursued graduate study at the Universities of Cornell and Columbia, obtaining his PhD from the latter institution. He has served as a tax and fiscal policy consultant for international organisations including the United Nations, the OECD, Harvard University Development Advisory Service, the Netherlands Economisch Instituut, and the World Bank. He has held many visiting teaching posts in the United States, Canada, Holland, Puerto Rico and the Ukraine. From 1983 - 90 he was Dean of the School of Accounting, Business and Economics. Since 1993 he has been on the editorial board of the international journal Public Finance and more recently has acted as an external assessor for the UK Government Economics Service.

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Dr Adam Tebble, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory
adam.tebble@buckingham.ac.uk

Dr Tebble received his BA in Philosophy and Linguistics from University College London (UCL), his Master's in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, and was awarded a PhD in Political Theory from the Government Department of the London School of Economics in 2003. He is the author of Hayek (Continuum Press, 2010) and is currently completing a book on the role of the state in culturally diverse societies for Routledge Press that is due for publication in 2012. Dr Tebble has previously published in the journals Economics and Philosophy (2001), Political Theory (2002, 2006), Political Studies (2003) and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2009).

In the United Kingdom Dr Tebble has taught at the London School of Economics and at the School of Public Policy, UCL. In the United States he has taught at Brown University, where he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2004-2006), then Lecturer (2006-2007) at the Department of Political Science.

His research interests include contemporary liberal political theory, with a specialisation in classical liberalism, the idea of social justice, the politics of culture and identity, and the idea of public communication.

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Professor Geoffrey Wood, Professor of Monetary Economics
geoffrey.wood@buckingham.ac.uk

Professor Geoffrey Wood has lectured in Economics at the University of Warwick and in Banking and Finance at City University, London, where he has been Professor since 1986. He worked at the Bank of England as Economist, and later as Special Adviser on Financial Stability. He was also Visiting Scholar at the Federal Bank of St Louis. He has acted as economic adviser to various firms and organisations, including W. Greenwell & Co., Buckmaster & Moore, the Union Discount Company of London, the New Zealand Treasury and the Bank of Finland. Visiting professorships have taken him to universities around the world: South Carolina, Harvard, London, Athens and Oxford. Since 1991 he has been a trustee of the Wincott Foundation. He is the author, co-author or editor of over twenty books, and he has published over fifty papers in academic journals, as well as doing a good amount of written and broadcast journalism. Recent books co-edited with F.H. Capie include: The Development of Monetary Theory in the 1920s and 1930s (1999); Policy Makers on Policy (2001); Monetary Unions: Theory, History, Public Choice (2003); The Lender of Last Resort (2007), and with David Mayes The Structure of Financial Regulation (2007).

Geoffrey Wood teaches Economics.

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